Sunday, April 12, 2009

Solving contest 2009-04-12, 6th ESSNA, Ampelokipi

In the hall of the Ampelokipi Chess Club (in Athens) took place the sixth Solving Contest of the "Union of Chess Clubs in Attica" (ESSNA), in Sunday April 12 2009. The contest honors the memory of Byron Zappas, Greek Grand Master in Composition.

Selection of problems and Judgment by Mr. Garoufalidis Ioannis. The selected problems had several tries, which could lead solvers astray, but, as most of the present contestants admitted, were not as extremely difficult (with the possible exception of the four-mover and the study) as in previous contests. Let us see the press bulletin :

Press Bulletin

With satisfactory number of contestants, the sixth contest of ESSNA took place in Ampelokipi Chess Club.

Champion of Attica is now Mendrinos Nikos who, despite his absence in recent contests, managed to gather 17,5 points solving the difficult three-mover but failing to solve the more-mover and the difficult study. Second is the experienced Fougiaxis Harry gathered easily 15 points solving the heterodox problems, and third with equal points is Skyrianoglou Dimitris. A "false step" of Papastavropoulos Andreas deprived him from a place with a medal, ranking him fourth with 15 points also but with more time than Fougiaxis and Skyrianoglou. Ilantzis Spyros is in fifth place with 13 points, while a pleasant surprise is the placement of Vlahos Elissaios with 12,5 points and sixth place.

Place

Name

#2

#3

#4

=

h#3

s#3

points

time

place

1

Mendrinos Nikos

5

5

-

-

2.5

5

17.5

2:28

1

2

Fougiaxis Harry

5

-

-

-

5

5

15

2:22

2

3

Skyrianoglou Dimitris

5

5

-

-

-

5

15

2:27

3

4

Papastavropoulos Andreas

5

-

-

-

5

5

15

2:30

4

5

Ilantzis Spyros

5

3

-

-

-

5

13

2:30

5

6

Vlahos Elissaios

5

-

-

-

2.5

5

12.5

2:30

6

7

Kalkavouras Ioannis

5

-

-

-

2.5

4

11.5

2:29

7

8

Manolas Emmanuel

5

-

4

-

2.5

-

11.5

2:30

8

9

Sklavounos Panagis

5

-

-

1

-

5

11

2:30

9

10

Konidaris Panagiotis

5

-

-

-

5

-

10

2:30

10

11

Markessinis L.

5

-

-

-

-

3

8

2:30

11

12

Anemodouras L.

5

-

-

-

2.5

-

7.5

2:30

12

13

Mihaloudis G.

5

2

-

-

-

-

7

2:30

13

14

Anastassiou M.

5

-

-

-

-

-

5

2:26

14

15

Georgakis I.

-

-

-

-

-

-

0

2:06

15

16-17

Magiati E.

-

-

-

-

-

-

0

2:30

16-17

16-17

Barous Th.

-

-

-

-

-

-

0

2:30

16-17

In the photo, left to right : Papastavropoulos Andreas, Ilantzis Spyros, Skyrianoglou Dimitris, Mendrinos Nikos, Fougiaxis Harry. In the back : Vlahos Elissaios.

Here follow the six problems. The solutions are written at the end of this post and you may try to solve them without "peeking" unwillingly at the solution keys.

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